California Wildfires WTF

Rhamlin
Rhamlin Posts: 9,137 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Just seeing this on the news. Jeezus. You alright out there brothers?

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  • Hawks
    Hawks Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just Los Angeles area. All good up here.

    Nolite Oblivisci Peniculus Dentes

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So far so good. The power company has a scheduled power shut off starting tonight when the winds pick up. Got my generator all ready to go.

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • Olekingcole
    Olekingcole Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭✭✭

    All good here

    I don't have problems, just more work to do.

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dang…there’s a lot of Californians on this forum…I know there is 3-4 more I know of. There needs to be a cali Herf.

    @Hawks ????

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • Olekingcole
    Olekingcole Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OutdoorsSmoke_21191 said:
    Dang…there’s a lot of Californians on this forum…I know there is 3-4 more I know of. There needs to be a cali Herf.

    @Hawks ????

    He would love to host that 😂

    I don't have problems, just more work to do.

  • Olekingcole
    Olekingcole Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A photo I saw of LA

    I don't have problems, just more work to do.

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pacific Palisades 😔😔😔

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • Hawks
    Hawks Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Damn. 😕

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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @d_blades said:
    Missouri is closed, just saying'.

    Afraid they'll be exporting voters?

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    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes, and rightly so. I worry for Texas. Lot of Cali refugees ending up there the past decade.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,648 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is it illegal for Malibu CA beachfront property owners to pump ocean water into firehoses to fight fires? Maybe I'm just asking the dumbest question ever but I'm not the ones facing 100 mph wind gusts and dry underbrush conditions with my back to an ocean full of water.

  • Hawks
    Hawks Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭✭✭

    From what I understand, the catastrophic fires are blamed on high wind events. Same thing as when Paradise and Santa Rosa burned. That responsibility was placed on the energy companies and the cost of retrofitting was passed on to the consumers. Ask me how I know. Bet the same will be repeated down in SoCal. I don't think that the governing bodies, of anywhere, will ever pay for anything other than self-interests, "backed" by their constituents, with taxpayer money. While I agree for the most part about asinine policies, there are a few good ones sprinkled in there and I would rather not see our coffers drained. We all put a lot of money into that shlt; there are a few programs that actually help people that I don't mind paying into.

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  • Hawks
    Hawks Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Yes, and rightly so. I worry for Texas. Lot of Cali refugees ending up there the past decade.

    Lol, same thing happened with Katrina, too. Mom **** about the Californians and Katrina refugees all the time. Other side of the coin, I sure have seen a lot of Texas plates around here the last few years.

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  • Hawks
    Hawks Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    Is it illegal for Malibu CA beachfront property owners to pump ocean water into firehoses to fight fires? Maybe I'm just asking the dumbest question ever but I'm not the ones facing 100 mph wind gusts and dry underbrush conditions with my back to an ocean full of water.

    Choir here. One would think we would have desalination plants, also. Two for one prize there.

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  • d_blades
    d_blades Posts: 4,551 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    Is it illegal for Malibu CA beachfront property owners to pump ocean water into firehoses to fight fires? Maybe I'm just asking the dumbest question ever but I'm not the ones facing 100 mph wind gusts and dry underbrush conditions with my back to an ocean full of water.

    They are filling aircraft with it according to the news.

    Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just gotta be careful doing that. I remember reading something several years back...a guy in full scuba gear was found in a burned out area after the fire was out. Seems he was scooped up and dumped on a fire. Might be an urban legend but I sure wouldn't want to be dropped onto a forest fire.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:
    These fires jolted my thinking in a few areas.
    -Not everyone in CA is left of center.
    -Fires don't give a rip about anything - they will f*ck you over no matter who you are.
    -Somebody's political affiliation, whether I agree with them or not, does not affect their value as human being, nor does it change how I am to show empathy for them.

    👏👏👏 Absolutely!

  • First_Warrior
    First_Warrior Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I hope the powers that be can determine the starting points of these fires and just how they got started.

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